The University of Kansas BIRCWH (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers
in Women's Health) K12 Program announces the availability of faculty development
award opportunities in women's health research. The faculty development award
provides salary support and funds for research and development of junior faculty
(see eligibility requirements below). For more detailed information on the
Kansas BIRCWH K12 Program, please visit our website at http://www2.kumc.edu/bircwh/
Call for Applications: Friday, August 22, 2008
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Award Notification: by December 1, 2008
Award Start Date: January 1, 2009
HOW TO APPLY
Individuals interested in applying should contact Stacy
McClure to
schedule a meeting with the Program Director, Michael J. Soares, Ph.D. For
more information on how to apply, please visit the BIRCWH website at http://www2.kumc.edu/bircwh/index.html#application.
All required forms for the application are located on this website. PLEASE
SUBMIT ALL DOCUMENTS ELECTRONICALLY TO smcclure@kumc.edu.
Those forms requiring signatures can be scanned and emailed, dropped off to
Lied 1045, or sent via campus mail to MS 1053.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
- Clinical doctorate or Ph.D. equivalent
- Completion of postgraduate training
required for a faculty appointment
- At the time of application, no more than
six years of research training experience beyond their doctoral degree
- A tenure-track
faculty appointment at the University of Kansas (Medical Center, KU-Lawrence)
- Commitment
of salary support, laboratory space, research start-up package, and 75% protected
effort towards women's health research from an appropriate School or Research
Institute
- The Department, School, Research Center, and/or Research Institute
is expected to supplement the BIRCWH salary contribution to a level that
is consistent with the KUMC salary scale. Institutional supplementation of
a salary will not include duties or responsibilities that would interfere
with the BIRCWH Program and the 75% protected women's health research effort.
This agreement is needed to ensure that the IWHR Scholar has a salary consistent
with salaries for other junior faculty in his/her department. Please note
that NIH funds cannot be used to supplement salary.
- The incoming IWHR Scholar cannot be a
currently funded investigator with an R01, R29, or subproject grant in a
program project grant, center grant, or COBRE grant.
- The IWHR Scholar must be a United
States citizen or non-citizen national, or have legal admission into the
United States as a permanent citizen.
Thank you,
Patricia A. Thomas, M.D.
Principal Investigator
Michael J. Soares, Ph.D.
Program Director
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The University of Kansas Medical Center